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..or a crappy casino. (further precedents)

Circling the wagons and tending our own garden is a nice ideal, but is no panacea just because we build some factories in Cleveland, celebrate the end of Globalism , claim ‘US energy independence’ (that’s gotten quiet lately.) reassessing our footprint? Yes great idea. Large poorly thought-through snap actions because headlines are needed? No thanks.

Doh! (Switches on vpn)

I wish this was just an anecdote rather than an axiom.

Moon? I’m starting to wonder if there’s enough water for cities on earth.

Huh? There's plenty of water, endless water. It's cheap-because-drinkable water that isn't aplenty.

On the Moon, this is what may be lacking.

On Earth, we can close loop recycle from drains. We can take sea water and desalinate. We can use osmosis and clean dirty ground water.

Is any of that cheap? Nope. But it's also not a blocker on having water to drink and bath with.

We will never run out of water, only "easy clean water".

What you say is all true. Put down that book and take a trip to a Corpus Christi Texas city council meeting (eg), and help get all that silly confusion sorted out.

It took 200 years of industrial revolution to irremediably fuck up our paradise, sadly it would take much longer to terraform a dead rock to even 1% of what we had on earth

Europe was deforested and you didn't drink from water downstream of cities long before the industrial revolution.

Not that it matters to your point about the moon.

Batttlezone was the tank game.

man, I loved that game.

I also did that one: https://linsomniac.github.io/tankzone/

What are their data privacy and security policies? That is an important consideration.

I did fair amount of research, and it seems like they take it seriously with GDPR, HIPAA etc. and all the privacy legalities, but obviously Uncle Sam will have his way with it as it's a US based company (California). They will share your DNA if legally compelled.

There is a "permanent delete my data" option, but there's no independent audit that permanent delete actually deletes anything. If you're in EU/California they kinda have to take delete seriously due to GDPR and CCPA, so I think you're safer here.

I've been thinking about this a lot, and I'm not sure how "protectable" your DNA actually is because of how easy it is to get if somebody wants to. Obviously having your DNA in US government is bad, but they likely have it already.

As I'm an EU citizen I will get the data and use the delete option with fingers crossed that US government doesn't want to destroy me for whatever reason. Seems like they have their hands full with other kinds of destruction anyway lol

…and a trusted doctor isn’t necessarily a replacement for the CDC.

They serve different purposes, yes. If you think you may be sick the CDC is usually not the first place to go

Nice work! Love it.